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Hi if your interested the solution was a loose negative wire in the porch light fitting thanks for the people with helpful suggestions.

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Why is the blue wire doing the same

I am going to get an electrician out thanks for all your help

240 volts getting current through both negative and positive at the lights

I had the new ones on with the blue cable in L3 of the other switch but obviously that switched the porch on also.

Initially then went off after a few months

Hi no the sensor lights stopped working so I thought it was the lights so I replaced two lights either side of my front door. One of which was a replacement for an original light. So my thoughts were that I could wire another one in on the other side of the door. So I found the original cable...

I have tried it everywhere and the light still doesn’t work

I think it was switched live when I took the original out and put a new section in I’m not sure if it was wired into the left hand switch.

Goes to the lights

Goes to the lights

Hi terryplumb Yes there’s a new cable to the new light via the wire from the switch to connector for both light cables. The voltage on the right switch the com is 240 when the switch is on the brown in L3 is 240 when in off position it’s 0 the blue is reading over 100 volts. This using a...

Wires revised The blue and brown wires are the ones going to the lights could the switch be at fault don’t ridicule as the blue is connected to a separate block. Switch on the right is for outside light the other is for porch light works fine. Also still getting over a 100 bolts coming through...

Hi I have wired a new light off the old existing light but the switch for the outside lights won’t power the lights on. The other switch controls the porch light which is also controlled by a 3 way switch in the hallway. I lost the picture I took when I disconnected the main cable to the...

Can someone advise just trying to fit an extra light to an outside light have tapped into existing main wire that was there to a light but can’t remember where the blue and brown wire go.I haven’t touched the wires in other switch as they are working ok the switch is for a porch light and...